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PERRYMAN WILL
study ministry
WHILE A GIANT
Richmond, va . Aug is.—
Emmett Key Perryman Is not
going to let the lure of suc
cess a« a twirler m big league base
ball interfere with his clerical am
bitions. Perryman is the young
ster who was imported into Vir
ginia baseball circles from Georgia
last season bj the Danville club.
This year he Is playing with Rich
mond. but if all goes well he will
join McGraw's Giants at the close
of the Virginia season, early In
September
He was recently sold to that ag
gregation for SI,OOO He Is a big.
rangy chap with worlds of speed,
and when given propet support
nearly always wins his game
“Yea. I am going with McGraw,''
he said, "but that won't keep me
from finishing tny course at Emory
college. Oxford. Ga. 1 have already
had two years there, and unless the
unexpected happens I'll return to
college in October and capture a
Ph.B, next spring Then if McGraw
thinks I am stiU .worth something
to him, I'll be ready to accommo
date him. However. I propose to
teach a couple of years or so dur
ing the rvinter seasons, and then
DI probably go over to Vanderbilt,
al Nashville, to prepare myself for
the Methodist ministry What will
happen after that I can't say just
now. I always did want to be a
preacher, and I believe I’d make
•omething of a go at the calling "
Perryman fs a son of the late
James L, Perryman, of Rockmart.
Ga , member of the North Georgia
conference for many years. Since
entering college he has developed
marked talents as an orator and
debater and also as a student
Baseball baa always been hts fa
vorite sport, and when not twirling
for an Emory class team he put
in most of his spare time playing
semi-professional ball in the Crack
er state, until he came to Virginia.
Several of his brothers are also
passionately fond of the gams D
H. Perryman, his eldest brother,
who is principal of the high school
at Marshallville, Ga., is now pitch
ing for the Gainesville team dur
ing the summer season
When his team is in Richmond.
Perryman spends most of his nights
digging into his books Just now
he is doing some French parallel
reading. He rooms with Doc Ay
ers, also a member of the Rich
mond twirling stAff who came out
of the Virginia mountains near
Hillsville two years ago to take a
medical course here
NEWS FROM RINGSIDEI
Battling Keffe has canceled hII bouts
that are scheduled tor the next few
months. Not that he has any engage
ments. but he’s < anceled them there's
a good reason. Keffe was boxing with
his pet bulldog when he smashed the
doggie plumb on the left eye Tw se.
ends later the Battler missed a pat of
his right rand So of course ant
fight until his hand mends
• • •
Charley White will have a chance t..
avenge his brother Jack when the ct
• ago lightweight meets Joe, Rivers Ar
rangements have been practicalh • otn
pleted for a ten-round scrap between
Charley and the Mexican to be staged at
Kenosha some time ru-xt month
* * *
Articles were signed Friday for a six
found contest between Tommy luxon, of
Kansas City, and Tommy O'Toole at
Philadelphia September 20.
* • •
ftan McKetrick has received large of
fers to take Joe Jeannette to Australia
for a series of tights in the fall Dan
has not accepted the offer yet and will
probably talk it over with Joe before
cabling an answer
• • •
Johnny Dundee put an end to Patsy
Klings long winning streak by defeating
jlim in New York recently. Kline was
LOOKOUT FANS
CLAIM UMPIRES
ARE NOT ON JOB
C, HATTANOOGA. TENN., Aug.
13.- Local fans are blaming
the umpires of Pater Kava
naugh's staff to a large extent with
the listlessness and apathy which
have been exhibited by both the
home and visiting clubs upon many
occasions at Andrews field.
The -mistakes of the arbiters in
decisions which have been many
and numerous are not the greatest
evils of which they have been guil
ty In practically destroying the
piquancy and snap of the contests
The laxness of the umpires In stim
ulating and accelerating the ac
tion of the players and consequent
I) the speed of the games has been
far more exasperating to local pa
trons
During the last series with the
Pelicans this laxness was extreme
ly apparent, and both teams loafed
to and fnmi their positions In a.
manner which gave the frays the
appearance of mere exhibition con
tests. One noticeable and unnec
essary delax came when the receiv
ers were either al bat or on base
when the last out occurred. I'nder
these conditions an actual delay of
four minutes occurred during the
lime that the receiver was donning
his shin guards and other parts of
his txt noply. Os course, some delay
In such a case is necessary, but the
slowness employed by the Pelican
receivers. Angetmeier and Haigh,
especially was most exasperating to
the stands.
Another privilege allowed by the
umpires and one that lends the
frays the appearance of mere per
functory affairs was the sojourn of
home players upon the visiting
bench and vice versa. Os course,
the stands do not think that the
players are mortal enemies, but the
sight of them mingling on the field
of battle and laughing and joking
during the progress of the frays
lends the battles an air of levity
and Indifference which greatly sub
dues their piquancy and sharpness.
If the umpires would force the
players to trot to and from their
txtsitions, remain upon their own
benches and assume any way se
riousness and determination to
win the buttles would draw far
more patronage.
McFarland and wolgast
MAY FIGHT IN NEW YORK
t'HICAGO. Aug. 13. -Unless Tom'
.Innes in and spoils plans. Pack- I
ey McFarland and Ad Wolgast will
meet In New York before the Garden
Athletic club tn a ten-round clash on
October 3
iooke.l on by many as a coming champion
until hia defeat b\ IHindee
• • «
Montana Dan Sullivan is flnallv to
get t . hance at some middleweight He
Is match.-,I with Vic Hansen for a 20-
toun.l contest to be staged at Taft Cal
August 1, she winner of this tight will
be matched with Sailor Petroskey
la- k Britton is keen for a match with
Leach Cross The New Yorker sat"
t ross Britton claims that
Wim’n t'o ge ' s lhr< !l lgh Pommeling him
" ' ' ross was offered a go with Brit
ton he said he would think it over \<-
'" r <b”g to Jack's manager this means he
won t box Britton.
♦ • •
Irn-k Denning and Jack M. Carren have
Phrn i 1 ?*>' nlt t' 1,1 a -‘“.N-rmmd bout at
I mia.lelphta August 1 1, McCurren Is
Itemg managed by Philadelphia lack
o Brien and is considered a comer
• • •
.Irss,’ \\ iiiand, (hr cow box white hone
im matched with Glen Coakley tor a ten
round bout at Fort Wayne
Rddio M<-Gouri a will he seen >n the '
ring f the first time si?<-» his tub i
rngagen . 1.1 August 20. when he meets
Tommy Gavggan at Cleveland *
HfE AT LA ?<TA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. AUGUST 13. 1912.
Giants Flickering; Cubs Are Now Only Seven and One-Half Games to the Bad
CHANCE'S TEAM HAS GAINED .161 IN TWO MONTHS
Bv Percy H. Whiting.
r T'' H E National league race is
| getting somewhat thrilling
The Giants lost again yes
terday The Cubs and the Pirates
again won. And this morning the
Giants' lead over the Cubs has been
cut to 65 points—or a mere 7 1-2
ga mes
This is a long lead. But con
sider:
1. That two weeks ago the Giants
had a lead of .101 over the Cubs.
2. That one month ago their lead
was .170 over the Cubs
3. That two months ago their
lead was .262 over the Cubs.
4 And that the New York team
has the following games yet to
play:
At Chicago—August 15, 16. 17.
At St. Louis—August 13, 19, 20,
At Pittsburg—August 22. 23, 24.
At Cincinnati—August 26, 27.
Brooklyn at New York —August
29. 30. 31
At Boston —September 2, 2. 3.
At Philadelphia September 4,5,
6,7.
Brooklyn at New York—Septem
ber 9.
St. Louis at New York —Septem-
ber 10, 11, 12, 13.
Chicago at New York —September
14. 16, 17.
Cincinnati at New York—Sep
tember 18. 19, 20.
Pittsburg at New York—Septem
ber 21. 23, 24.
Boston at New York—September
26. 27. 28.
Philadelphia at New York —Sep-
tember 30, October 1, 2.
At Brooklyn—October 3. 4. 5.
I.ook over the list. Then consid
er that the Giants have but three
real pitchers, anyway. One Is the
now erratic Marquard, another the
faltering Mathewson and the third
Teareau. a good pitcher who al
ways gets poor support. VViltse is
all in. Ames is yellow.
Watch out for a big race in the
National. The Giants must have
nearly 50 games to play, includ
ing postponed affairs. They will
surely have to go some.
W • *
r T S a queer thing about Ty Cobb.
* He just will get on the first page
oftener than any other living ball
player. Witness the stabbing inci
dent in Detroit. It is entirely evi
dent that Cobb plans to keep before
the public strong enough, so that,
when he makes his demand for
$15,000 a year, he will get it. And
he’ll be worth it. too, and a better
.investment at the price than any
$250 a month man ever signed.
’ Speaking of Cobb, it's an odd
fact but the Chicagq pitchers have
departed with his batting goat. He
has hit only .310 this season against
Walsh Lange A- Co. Os course.
.31(1 is fair hitting-—but not for
Cobb. The Red Sox. as might be
expected, tank right ngxt to their
white hosed brethren in troubling
the mightiest batter of the Ameri
can league. At that he has hit
364 against them. Another thing
that might be expected is that
Cobb has done his healthiest swat
ting against the pitchers of the
decrepit St. Louis Browns. Th< >
are peaches for him. to the tune of
a 479 batting average.
Here Is Ty Cobb's batting record
against the various Clubs this sea
son. not absolutely up to date. but
nearly enough to give an idea of
what the Peerless Georgian is doing
against the opposition this year:
Opposing Team— A.B H. Ave.
Boston 44 16 364
Chicago 42 13 .3111
Cleveland 66 25 .379
New York 41 17 .415
Philadelphia 17 7 412
St. Louis 73 35 479
Washington 15 6 .400
• • •
rxALE GEAR the elongated out
*-■'fielder who was w ell known in
the Southern league foe several
.' ■ is and who has Cm e been man
tgmg with various but usua lj tol
rably good success in various tni-
1 nor leagues, tells a pretty good one.
I
EDITLD Jy W. S FARNSWORTH
Last year Gear copped the pen
nant In the Texas league for Aus
tin. This year he was giabbed by
the Topeka club as manager. He
had a fine ground keeper at /.us
tin, a man named James Danbury.
■ When Gear pulled out for Tope
ka he shanghaied Danbury, and a
couple of days later "Dan” was pol
ishing the countenance of the Tope
ka diamond, to the great satisfac
tion of Gear.
When Tom Iglehart. the presi
dent of the Austin club, missed
Danbury, he suspected what had
happened. So he sat down and
wrote one of the most remarkable
letters of baseball history. It read
as follows:
"Dear Sir—No doubt you are ig
norant of the fact that you have
violated a contractural agreement
with the Austin club by leaving us
| FODDER FOR FANS~|
The last time Walter Johnson went in to
pitch for Washington Kid Gleason yelped
from the third base coaching line, “Watch
us knock out of the box this promising
young pitcher"—which they didn't.
* ♦ ♦
The American association continues to
kid itself that it is nearly a big league.
Columbus has Just given up $5,000 (some
of it in real money, no doubt! for Out
fielder .Middleton and Pitcher Ellis, of the
Wichita team.
• • •
Por more reasons than one we suggest
Atlanta as the place for Charley Carr's
winter school for ball players.
Harry Billiard, once well known in the
South, has lost out as a member of the
Columbus pitching staff
* . *
Ralph Capron has hooked on at St. Paul
and has gotten away to a fast start.
That's his custom, but he doesn't hold his
speed.
• • •
Little Rock is tired of figuring in the
capacity of "wolf” for the Southern
league Every time attendance slumps in
the Southern league the club owners be
gin to shout “Wolf, wolf! We're going to
sell the franchise to Little Rock." They
worked it tn Montgomery. Mobile and
Nashville and every time somebody came
through with enough money to save the
club.
• 4 «
Charles -Comiskey spends a world of
money each tear for recruits. What he
spent last fall wasn't wasted, for he se
cured Rath, Weaver and Benz.
* ♦ ♦
Cleveland doesn’t care where it goes for
ball players Rob Gilkea has just landed
Pitcher Haves. He comes from the Ed
monton dub. of the Western Canada
league.
* * «
The Chattanooga team will play ex
hibition games in Pensacola August 14 and
15. ’Phe Pensacola club has repeatedly
tried to get Atlanta to play there, but the
CracKer club has had about ah the base
ball it could stand right in the Southern
circuit this year.
* • *
You can’t tell a ball player by the wav
he starts. Pour joke players at the start
were Marquard. Merkle. McGraw and Jen
nings
• • •
In a recent game at Norfolk a horse
belonging to a mounted policeman broke
loose from his moorings, which was a
'ittie negro boy. and careened around the
Infield, kicking up his heels and charging
at the players 'Phe hit-and-run game be
came very popular on the instant and
when It ended the players had all de
parted. leaving the nag a clear field
* * *
If the Giants lose many more games this
month McGraw will recall Charter Faust.
...
If Ganzel ever gets the pennant cinched
in the International association he will at
once turn Tommy McMillan over to the |
Yankees Bus he w’ill never let the wee
Atlantan go until it is.
* « «
■lack Kerr. ex-Cracker. is hitting 'em a
mile with Wilmington. The other day he
,
The Big Race
Here's how the “Big Five” of the!
American league are hitting the ball,!
the averages including yesterday's 1
games:
PLAYER. A.B H. PC.
COBB .... 402 168 .418 !
SPEAKER 427 171 .400 |
JACKSON 405 156 ,385
COLLINS 382 127 .332
LA JOIE 266 81 .305
Lajote and Jackson were the only I
members of the "Big Five” who played j
yesterday. Each made one hit. Jack- |
son out of four times at bat, Lajoie out
of three times at bat.
The Judge Met a Namesake, Too
in this manner. I would have you
understand that you were under a
contract, duly promulgated, to keep
grounds for Austin. You may cer
tiorari if you will, but the baseball
powers will sanction your suspen
sion. Austin has not waived claims
upon you. 1 beg to inform you
that you are hereby suspended, finis
electum.”
About three days after Iglehart
mailed this letter he received one
from Danbury, postmarked Topeka.
All it said was:
"Dear Mr. Iglehart—if that is the
way you feel about it. I will come
back on the next train."
» And back he came.
When questioned about it. he ad
mitted he was “sure scared.”
"What got me back, though.” he
said, "was that ’finis electum' part.
I don't know what that means yet.”
made four swats in a row At that the
last records showed him a trifle under
.300. for the season.
* ♦ •
The loyalty of the White Sox fans, long
a marvel, is flickering. The Sox got sucli
a good start this year that it wouldn't be
human to watch them slip without yelp
ing some.
* • *
Jimmy MctAleer may buv the Youngs
town team for a farm. If he does, this
will be the last year there of Bill Phil
lips. the old Pelican twlrler, as manager.
Sam Martina, brother of Joe who tried
out as a pitcher with Atlanta, has been
bought by the Beaumont club of the Tex
as league from Eugene Demont's Yazoo
City wreck.
• • •
Connie Mack's much advertised shake
up consisted of making Jack Barrv the
first hitter, sending Rube Oldring to left,
benching Maggert and shoving Lord down
to seventh place In the batting order
The team has been going pretty strong
ever since.
“Correct Dress for Men.”
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$15.00 Suits now SIO.OO pi rtr CCDr.r CIUTr
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$25.00 Suits now $16.65 A new lot ’ ust received, and at
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$35.00 Suits now $23.35 of sizes.
We take inventory on August 15. and want to close out our entire stock
of suinnieh goods before that date. This is your opportunity to buv dependa
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Copyright, 1912. National News Ass'n. By Tad
JDRUAN SWS
SLIDING INTO
FIHST IS BAD
CHATTANOOGA. TENN,, Aug.
13—Is sliding into first base
on close ones a good play?
Most fans, and especially minor
league ones, say yes. They argue
that it gives the runner the ad
vantage of at least a second and
also shows the slider to be pos
sessed of the proper pep and fight
ing spirit. Ttvo men, each repre
sentative in his capacity in the
Southern league, however, con
demn the play as a poor one. These
two men are Otto Jordan, admit
tedly one of the best all-round
players who 4ver donned a South
ern league uniform, and Frank
Rudderham, since Carpenter’s de
parture, the dean of the umpiring
staff.
"A base runner does not gain
time in sliding into first,” says Jor
dan; “he loses by it. In running
the body is carried well forward
and the leg advanced as much as
possible to take the bag. When
the runner slides, however, he must
slow' up and bring both feet to
gether before he can throw him
self forward for the slide. In doing
this he loses a whole step. No man
can slide directly from his stride.
He must stop and bring his feet
together.
"The belief that sliding helps a
base runner arises from the fact
that it is universally employed as
an aid in sliding into the other
bags. It is an undisputed fact that
a slide into second or third is ab
solutely' indispensable. But bear this
fact in mind, the runner hits the
dirt not to help him beat the ball
to the bag. but to evade the tag. A
man can steal second or third yvhen
the ball beats him a full second, but
at first he must actually beat the
ball.”
CRACKERS PLAY
PELICANSTDDAY
ANO THEN REST
NEW ORLEANS. LA., Aug. 13.
Today’s game is the Crack
ers’ last In New Orleans this
year. Tomorrow and Thursday the
Crackers take good, long-drawn
loaf. They will probably decide to
spend their time.ln New Orleans,
for there is more excitement here
and no more heat than in Mobile.
They will probably move over to
Mobile on Friday, when they open
a three-game series.
Yesterday's game, the third in a
row the Crackers have lost to New
Orleans on this trip, was a fright.
Errors were numerous, but Bill
Wagner pitched better ball and de
served the decision.
“Doc" Johnston spiked Agler in
the fourth inning and time was
taken out while Joe’s wounds were
dressed. The Cracker was only
slightly hurt and returned to hts
duties after a few minutes. Three
umpires, President Kavanaugh and
a few spectators were present.
Frank Rudderham, who worked
Sunday, let Stockdale and Hart la
bor while he for once was privi
leged to criticise the indicator men
from the stand. ♦
It was a wild hitting game. Every
one of the locals hit safely except
Haigh and every Pelican counted
a run except Hendrix. Johnston
starred with the stick, while Spen
cer Showed a liking for Brady’s
brand that he had not manifested
in a long time. Catcher Graham
led the visitors in batting.